In
Akkadian mythology the
Allu were a race of monstrous and faceless
demons that destroyed all what they could capture. They were engendered during a man's sleep with
Lilitu or one of her demon servants (see also
succubus). When the man who had engendered them was about to die, they surrounded his bed waiting for the moment during which they could take their father's soul, impeding his travel to the
Underworld, and making of him an errant
spirit, feared by all living people (see also
ghost).
In Sumerian mythology Allu was a demonic power.
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